The Public Interest Section of the American Accounting Association invite accounting faculty and doctoral students to submit papers for presentation at a jointly sponsored conference in the easy to access location of Arlington, Virginia.

Papers appropriate for this conference are those which relate to public interest topics, accounting history topics or both areas of scholarship. Sample themes may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Accounting ethics vis-à-vis professional ethics
• Public interest/policy aspects of regulation: Sarbanes-Oxley, Tax Laws, SEC Rules, Auditing Standards etc.
• Corporate governance and stakeholder interest
• Perspectives on the accounting profession and accounting practice
• Research methodologies
• Accounting education
• Globalization and accounting in international environments
• Interdisciplinary perspectives on accounting
• Accounting, the environment and sustainability
• Corporate social reporting
• Gender studies
• Commercialization
• Accounting and the state

The two-day conference will begin with breakfast on Friday morning and conclude at noon on Saturday. The conference will take place at the Hyatt Crystal City at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. The registration fee, the cost of which will be announced in the future, will be waived for doctoral students wishing to attend.

Papers should be submitted for consideration via e-mail attachment to the appropriate conference editor no later than January 15, 2010. Please identify all authors, their positions, and affiliations in the email but not in the attached paper. A submission fee of $30 should be mailed separately to the appropriate person as indicated below.

Papers submitted for review by public interest section reviewers should be e-mailed to Christine Earley at PIS2010@providence.edu. She can be reached at 401-865-2056 for any questions or other details about the conference. A submission fee of $30 (make check payable to the American Accounting Association) for papers designated for the Public Interest Section should be mailed to Christine Earley, Providence College School of Business, Accountancy Department, 1 Cunningham Square, Providence, RI 02918.

Decisions on submissions will be communicated to authors on or before February 28, 2010.

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